Extra pancreas helps diabetic end insulin shots

Daily Breeze;  July 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ......country _ clinical research trials on islet cell transplantation. If the islet cell transplants had been successful, she...in the future, I'm sure it would be an islet cell transplant," says Dr. J. Richard Thistlethwaite...pancreas doesn't do in Type 1 diabetics. ...

AT LEVIN'S URGING, HCFA BROADENS ELIGIBILITY FOR PANCREAS TRANSPLANTS

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  October 26, 1999 ;     437 words ......Urging, HCFA Broadens Eligibility For Pancreas Transplants WASHINGTON -- Earlier this year...policy regarding Medicare coverage of pancreas transplants, particularly HCFA's requirement...FA's announcement that it will cover pancreas transplants that were previously denied is a...

N-East researchers hope for diabetes cure breakthrough

The Northern Echo;  July 24, 2004 ;     443 words ......believe advanced insulin-producing islet cell transplants could be available to...Only a handful of insulinproducing islet cell transplants have taken place in...at the Government's go-ahead for pancreas transplants, and growing interest in the potential...long run. Dr Shaw explained ...

U. Hospital performs its first pancreas transplant

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  August 25, 2007 ;     565 words ......with surgical teams now performing pancreas transplants. The expansion is a significant...the medical team needed to perform pancreas transplants and training hospital staff in the...other Utah hospital that performs pancreas transplants. "We wanted to pick the ideal patient...

Nonfunctioning islet cell carcinoma of the pancreas: Case report

The American Surgeon;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Islet cell carcinomas have an incidence of 5 per...50 per cent of these are nonfunctioning islet cell tumors. The presenting symptoms mimic...choice is resection. Most nonfunctioning islet cell tumors are not discovered until metastases...

PROGRAM AT UC CONDUCTS RESEARCH

Dayton Daily News;  December 22, 2002 ;     198 words ...Besides islet cell transplant surgeries, the University of Cincinnati's Islet Cell Initiative is conducting research. It's looking...says Dr. Horacio Rilo, the UC's director of islet cell transplantation. In another project, researchers...

BUMC performs Texas' first autologous islet cell transplant to treat...

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings;  January 1, 2007 ;     322 words ......have performed the first autologous islet cell transplant to treat chronic pancreatitis...her severe pain. After the surgery, islet cell specialists took Ms. Kelley's pancreas to Baylor's islet cell laboratory where the islet cells were...

Norfolk General gets state's OK to offer pancreas transplants.(Local)

The Virginian Pilot;  December 17, 2004 ;     116 words ......Norfolk General Hospital received final approval to add pancreas transplants to its kidney-transplant program, the hospital's parent...often performed in conjunction with a kidney transplant. Pancreas transplants have quadrupled nationally since the mid-1990s, according...

University of Virginia Health System to Develop New Approaches to Treat...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  November 15, 2004 ;     473 words ......National Institutes of Health to take islet cell transplantation to the next level...this year, U.Va. performed the first islet cell transplant in Virginia. The grant could increase the number of islet cell transplants performed at U.Va. in...

Value of pancreas transplants for most diabetic patients questioned in...

Transplant News;  April 24, 1998 ;     338 words ......safer than transplantation. As of mid-1997, over 8,500 pancreas transplants had been done worldwide--over 1,000 annually in the US...Islet transplantation has not been as successful as pancreas transplants in rendering patients insulin independent, but the author...

Pancreas ops are to treble.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  November 17, 2003 ;     98 words ...PANCREAS transplants are to treble, transforming the lives of many diabetics, Health...national need for the operation was expected to be met by 2009. Pancreas transplants are usually combined with kidney transplants for people with...

Intraoperative imaging of pancreas transplant allografts using indocyanine...

Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Technologies Inc, Toronto, Canada) in two pancreas transplants as a means to assess patency of...real-time SPY imaging on these two pancreas transplants did not demonstrate adverse effects...Gruessner's review, over 23,000 pancreas transplants have been performed worldwide as...

City set for Scots first in surgery

Evening News - Scotland;  July 6, 1998 ;     386 words ......become Scotland's first centre for pancreas transplants. Scots diabetes sufferers would...to become the Scottish centre for pancreas transplants as well as liver transplants," he...transplant surgeon John Forsythe said the pancreas transplants could be performed for around 15...

Cell transplants at UW-Madison free diabetic from daily insulin injections

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 30, 2004 ;     700+ words ......ice cream again. After three pancreatic islet cell transplants, the Door County man has...refrigerator to get a shot," he said. Islet cell transplantation is an experimental procedure...transplants; fewer than 100 are used for islet cell extraction, Odorico said. Embryonic stem...

Comparative immunocytochemistry of isolated rat & monkey pancreatic islet...

Indian Journal of Medical Research;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Data on comparative distribution of the islet cell types in the Indian bonnet monkeys and...compare the arrangement of the three islet cell types in the native and in isolated rat...secreting D cells. The arrangement of islet cell types in the rats and monkeys was similar...